Books like Go Tell It on the Mountain
12 books with a reading profile close to Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Housekeeping
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
In the isolated town of Fingerbone, Idaho, sisters Ruth and Lucille are raised by a succession of female relatives following their mother’s suicide.
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2
The Bluest Eye
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in 1941 Lorain, Ohio, the narrative focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a young Black girl who internalizes the white standards of beauty dominant in her community.
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3
A Streetcar Named Desire
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Blanche DuBois, a displaced schoolteacher with a fragile mental state, arrives at the cramped New Orleans apartment of her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
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4
Villette, a novel
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Lucy Snowe, a young woman without family or financial security, travels to the fictional Belgian city of Villette to become a teacher at a girls’ boarding school.
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5
The Lowland
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Subhash and Udayan are brothers born in Calcutta, separated by temperament and political conviction.
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6
Cathedral
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Raymond Carver’s collection presents twelve short stories centered on blue-collar domesticity, alcoholism, and isolation in the American Pacific Northwest.
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7
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy, Margaret R. Higonnet
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman living in the rural English countryside, discovers her family descends from the aristocratic d’Urberville line.
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8
The Marriage Plot
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in the early 1980s, the story follows three Brown University graduates navigating the transition to adulthood.
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9
An Artist of the Floating World
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in post-war Japan, the narrative follows Masuji Ono, a retired painter navigating the physical and social ruins of his city.
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10
The Winter's Tale
Also deep and open-ended · narrative, literary
King Leontes of Sicily falls into a sudden, irrational jealousy, accusing his pregnant wife Hermione of adultery with his childhood friend, King Polixenes.
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11
Ceremony
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tayo, a young man of mixed Laguna Pueblo and white heritage, returns to his reservation in New Mexico after fighting in the Second World War as a prisoner of the Japanese.
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12
The English Patient
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a ruined Tuscan villa during the final stages of the Second World War, the narrative centers on four fractured lives brought together by circumstance.
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